Alex Downing & Company Ltd
This firm was based in Trafalgar Street by 1922. Its advertisement displayed a wide range of cased canteens and boxed sets of table cutlery and carvers in Firth’s stainless and electro-plated nickel silver. The identity of the owner is uncertain – possibly he was from Doncaster. In 1925, Alexander Downing was listed as a manufacturing silversmith. The firm had been liquidated in the previous year. The premises were later occupied by Jessop & Smith, the name of which (and Downing&....
